Privacy Statement

The following is the privacy statement for Sterling Computers

SOCIAL MEDIA PRIVACY POLICY
 
Sterling Computers Corporation (“we”, “us” or “our”) appreciate your interest in our company.
 
Your privacy is important to us. Please read this privacy policy carefully, as it contains important information on how and why we collect, store, use, and share your personal information in connection with your interactions with our LinkedIn Page, Facebook Page, YouTube Page and Twitter Page (“Pages”) and their corresponding social media platforms.
 
Our Pages’ corresponding social media platforms are owned and operated by other people, and not by us, and have their own privacy policies. Please note that your personal information will be processed under the terms of the relevant social media platform, and we are not responsible or liable in respect of the same. You should review the privacy policies and other terms and conditions of these social media platforms to ensure you understand what information is collected about you, how it is used, who it is shared with, and what choices you have about how your information is collected, used, and shared.
 
WHAT IS PERSONAL INFORMATION?
 
Personal information is information that identifies you, or that could reasonably be used to identify you, such as your name, postal address, e-mail address, and telephone number. Personal information does not include information that has been anonymized or aggregated in such a manner that the information cannot reasonably be capable of being attributed to you personally.
 
HOW DO WE COLLECT YOUR INFORMATION?
 
We collect information you submit to us. You may submit information to us through your interactions with us via our Pages, such as by adding posts, reviews and other comments to our Pages. Likewise, you may submit information to us by interacting with us via our Website (“Website”) or other community forums. You may submit information to us in the course of your direct communications with us, such as when you speak to us over the telephone or in-person, or when you send us an email, text message or other correspondence. You also may submit information to us through forms or other documents, such as when you sign up for an offer or a competition, when you subscribe to receive news or other communications, or when you respond to a survey.
 
We receive your information from third parties. We may receive information about you from the operators of the social media platforms and their affiliates and in connection with our use of the sites, apps, communications and services they offer (“Platform Services”), such as through our use of their social media platforms, including the operation of our Pages, and through our use of their ad services.  For example, we may receive statistics that they create based on the visits to our Page, or if you click on, comment on, or share an ad on their platform, your action may be shared with us. We may also receive information about you from other users of the Platform Services, such as visitors to our Pages.  PLEASE NOTE: if you submit information to us about any other person, before you do so, please make sure you have their permission and please provide them with a copy of this privacy policy. Additionally, from time to time we engage individuals and businesses for business purposes, such marketing, communications, and analytics service providers who help us provide you with relevant information about us, and we may receive information about you from our third-party service providers.
 
We collect information about you. We may collect information about you that is available through publicly accessible sources, or that is available to us as user of the Platform Services such as your posts, comments, pictures or videos on the social media platforms. We also may collect information through cookies and similar technologies. For example, we may collect information on what you view, access, click on, or search for via our Pages, Website, marketing emails, or text messages, such as the time of when you do so, and the geographic location and technical information about the device you use when you do so
 
 
 
 
 
WHAT INFORMATION DO WE COLLECT?
 
  • Identifiers, such as real name, alias, postal address, unique personal identifier, online identifier, internet protocol address, email address, account name, or other similar identifiers
 
  • Information that identifies, relates to, describes, or is capable of being associated with a particular individual (i.e. any category of personal information described in Cal. Civ. Code §1798.80(e)), such as name, signature, address, telephone number, employment or employment history
 
  • Protected classification characteristics (characteristics of protected classifications under California or Federal Law), such as your gender or age
 
  • Commercial Information, such as records of personal property, products or services purchased, obtained or considered, or other purchasing or consuming histories or tendencies
 
  • Internet or other electronic network activity information, such as browsing history, search history, and information regarding interaction with an internet website, application or advertisement
 
  • Geolocation data, such as physical location, movements, or location history via devices
 
  • Sensory data, such as audio, electronic, visual, thermal, olfactory or similar information
 
  • Professional or employment-related information, such as directory information, job history, or performance evaluations.  
 
  • Inferenced profile information (i.e. inferences drawn from any of the information identified above to create a profile about a person), such as inferences drawn to create a profile reflecting a person’s preferences, characteristics, psychological trends, predispositions, behavior, attitudes, intelligence, abilities or aptitudes.
 
HOW AND WHY DO WE USE YOUR INFORMATION?
 
We operate our Pages and utilize other Platform Services to provide you with information about us and our products, services and other activities (“Business”), such as through advertisements, offers, news, competitions, sponsored events, and social media and other digital content. We may use your information to:
  • Respond to social media posts and other public comments made to or about us or our Business
  • Respond to questions, suggestions, issues and complaints that are raised with us or about us or our Business
  • Provide you with marketing and promotional communications
  • Deliver targeted and relevant advertising and offers to you
  • Understand you and our target audience better
  • Conduct research and gather statistics
  • Provide and maintain our Business
  • Improve and personalize our Business
  • Develop new Business over time
  • Plan and manage our day-to-day business
  • Maintain administrative and legal records
  • Comply with our legal, regulatory and contractual obligations
  • Detect and prevent fraud, abuse and other threats
  • Protect our Business, networks, customers and business partners
 
 
 
WHO DO WE SHARE YOUR INFORMATION WITH?
 
Third party service providers who help us run our business, including to help us understand you and our target audience better and to help us provide you with information about us and our Business, such as the operators of the social media platforms and their affiliates, search engine providers, analytics service providers, and marketing, communications and advertising service providers and networks.
 
Business partners, vendors, subcontractors, and other individuals and businesses who help us provide our Business, including to help us supply our products and services, to help us promote, improve and personalize our Business, and to help us develop new Business over time, such as our manufacturers, distributors, and shipping companies.
 
Professional advisers who provide us with their advice and services, such as our lawyers, accountants and technology consultants.
 
Law enforcement agencies, executive agencies, the courts, and other governmental and administrative authorities to comply with our legal or regulatory obligations or who request information and to whom we may lawfully disclose the information, such as for the prevention or detection of crime.
 
Other persons and businesses, such as to prospective buyers of any part of our business or assets, during a re-structuring, to comply with a court order or other legal or regulatory obligation, or to share your information at your direction. 
 
WHAT INFORMATION HAVE WE SOLD OR SHARED FOR A BUSINESS PURPOSE?
 
We have not sold to a third party any personal information that identifies, relates to, describes, is capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with a particular consumer or household.
While we do not sell personal information, we may share your personal information with other individuals and businesses for business purposes. In the preceding 12 months, we have shared for a business purpose the following categories of personal information:
 
  • Identifiers, such as real name, alias, postal address, unique personal identifier, online identifier, internet protocol address, email address, account name, or other similar identifiers
 
WHERE DO WE KEEP YOUR INFORMATION?
 
Your information may be kept at our offices, or at the offices of the persons and businesses who we share your information with (see above: “Who do we share your information with?”).  We will not transfer, store, or use your personal information in countries outside the U.S. and its territories.
 
WHAT CHOICES DO YOU HAVE?
 
Depending on which state laws apply to you, you may have certain rights with respect to your privacy. Consumers who are California residents have the following privacy rights in accordance with California law.  If you wish to learn more about or exercise the choices you have with respect to your privacy, please contact us (see below: “Contact Us”).
 
·     Right to know: you may have the right to request information from us about the personal information we have collected about you, including their sources and for what purpose, the information we have shared for a business purpose, and the information we have sold and to whom. 
 
·     Right to deletion: you may have the right to request we delete your information from our records.
 
·     Right to protection from Discrimination: You have the right to not be discriminated against by us based on your exercise of your privacy rights.  
 
 
PLEASE NOTE: We are not obligated to grant any choices or privacy except those applicable to you and as required by applicable law. ALSO PLEASE NOTE: We are not obligated to provide information in response to any request if we cannot verify that the person making the request is the person that we collected the information about, or someone authorized to act on such person’s behalf. So if you choose to exercise the choices you have with respect to your privacy, you will need to provide us with enough information to identify you, proof of your identity and address, a description of what right you want to exercise, and the information to which your request relates.
 
THIRD PARTY LINKS
 
Our Pages, Website, e-mails and texts may contain links to third party websites. If you follow a link to any third party website, please note that these websites will have their own privacy policies and we are not responsible or liable in respect of the same.
 
CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY
 
We may change this privacy policy from time to time. When we do, we will post those changes to our Website and update the “Last updated” date at the bottom of this privacy policy, unless we are required by applicable law to notify you by other means.
 
CONTACT US
 
You may contact us by e-mail, by telephone, or by post, at the following contact details.  Please contact us if you have any questions, comments or complaints about this privacy policy, or if you wish to learn more about or exercise the choices you have with respect to your privacy. Also, please contact us to notify us of any changes to your personal information, to help us keep your records up to date.
 
Sterling Computers Corporation
Attn: Legal Department
303 Centennial Drive, PO Box 1995
North Sioux City, SD 57049
legal@sterling.com
Phone: 877-242-4074
 
DO YOU NEED EXTRA HELP?
 
If you would like this privacy notice in another format, such as audio, large print, or braille, please contact us (see above: “Contact Us”).
 
Last updated December 7, 2020
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